JPH0285113A - Device for forming fixed number of slide fastener to bundle - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To pack the counted and opened bundles with marks and to supply them into a container by a specific method by mounting a collection trough, a packing means, a moving trough having a marking means, and a delivering or discharge trough underneath a reversing roller of an alignment conveyor arranged at a discharge end. CONSTITUTION: A collection trough 9 is arranged underneath a reversing roller 7 of an alignment conveyor 6 arranged at a discharge end, and a packing means 10 is operated as a bringing piece between the collection trough 9 and the moving trough 11. The marking means 12 has the shape of a push button inkjet device, and acts on the packs of the bundles 2 through a window 16 of the moving trough 11. When a contact plate 15 is lowered, the conveyor 17 inserts a pivottably connected transport arm 18 into the collection trough 9, and inserts another transport arm 19 into the moving trough 11 for conveying the packed bundles 2 from the packing means 10 to the moving trough 11, and the packed bundles 2 are supplied to the discharge or delivery trough 13 through the inkjet device 12. The discharge trough 13 is extended to an upper part of a container 14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention provides a method in which a finished slide fastener consisting of a continuous strip and having a leading end, a trailing end and a runner is cut at a separation position and the separated slide fastener is The belt conveys via reversing rollers to an alignment conveyor with an endlessly rotating conveyor belt, and the separated slide fasteners are aligned transversely to the conveying direction on such a belt and are aligned transversely to the conveying direction and the alignment conveyor forms a predetermined number of slide fasteners into an open bundle and wraps the bundle, the alignment conveyor having a counter for counting the number of slide fasteners to be formed into the bundle; , and relates to an apparatus for making a package.

The term "open bundle" refers to a quantity of slide fasteners arranged in a bundle together and against each other but not held together by laces or other means.

PRIOR ART In such a known device (DE 21 54 548), back-up flaps are arranged at the ends of the alignment conveyor and the alignment slide fasteners, these fasteners being able to hold the bundles together. It was counted and returned to the front of the flap to form. Through an associated activation mechanism, the counter opens the flap when the bundle contains a predetermined number of fasteners, and the bundle is then transferred to the table. Bundles cannot easily be automatically wrapped, marked and delivered into containers in predetermined numbers of such wrapped bundles, and furthermore these bundles cannot be handled, for example, on a customer-by-customer basis. be exposed.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION The object of the invention is to improve the device mentioned at the outset, so that counted open bundles can be wrapped, marked and fed into containers in a defined manner.

Another aim of the invention is to ensure that all mechanical requirements for automatic operation of the device are present.

Composition of the invention A solution to this problem has the following characteristics.

namely a collection trough under the reversing roller of the alignment conveyor located at the discharge end, a wrapping means, a moving trough with marking means, a delivery or discharge trough, and a container for a plurality of wrapped slide fastener bundles. and
the bottom of the collection trough is arranged in an inclined plane descending towards a vertically reciprocable contact plate at the end face;
Wrapping means are arranged in the space between the collecting trough and the moving trough and act as a bridge between these two troughs in operation, and the marking means is arranged in the space between the collecting trough and the moving trough, and the marking means is arranged in the space between the collecting trough and the moving trough and acts as a bridge between these two troughs; a linear conveyor is arranged above the unit formed by the collecting trough, the moving trough and the delivery trough, and the contact plate acts on the bundle packages through windows in the moving trough; having a pivot-coupled conveying arm inserted into the collection trough and another conveying arm inserted into the moving trough when raised, the conveying of the wrapped bundles from the packaging means to the moving trough takes place; A linear conveyor supplies the open bundles to the wrapping means and passes through an inkjet device to supply the wrapped bundles to the discharge trough.

According to the present invention, in order to deliver the wrapped bundle to a predetermined location within the container, the delivery trough extends above the container, and the container is configured to deliver the wrapped bundle to a predetermined location within the container using a coordinate table on which the container is placed. It can be arranged so that it can be transferred from the trough to different locations within the container. The separating position, the accelerating belt and the alignment conveyor can of course be stopped by suitable control devices when the raised welding plate is lowered and the conveying arm is operated in the manner described above.

The packaging means of the device according to the invention can be constructed in various ways. Packaging may be accomplished by tying or filling in bags, placing in cartons, and other methods. In an embodiment which is advantageous in terms of operational simplicity and reliability, the wrapping means is in the form of a strapping device. According to the invention, a conveying arm insertable into the moving trough near the packaging means in order to ensure that the wrapped bundles are grabbed by the associated conveying arm and transferred to the moving trough in a simple manner. has a vertically reciprocatable conveying head with suction means that engages the wrapped bundles.

Example Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The illustrated device is used for forming a predetermined number of slide fasteners 1 into an open bundle, packaging this bundle and making a package 3.

The completed slide fastener 1 consists of a continuous slide fastener strip and has a starting end, a terminal end and a runner.
For example, German Patent Application No. 2154548
The cut is made at a separation position 4 as described in the patent specification. The separated slides)'77 snares are then fed by an accelerating belt 5 to an alignment conveyor 6, which has a conveyor belt rotating around a reversing roller ruff, and these slide fasteners parallel to each other, and are aligned on the belt transversely to the transport direction. This is illustrated in FIG. The alignment conveyor 6 has a counter 8 for counting the number of slide fasteners 1 to be formed into the bundle 2.

The counter 8 forms part of a suitable control device which stops the conveyor 6 and the unit before it when a corresponding number of fasteners 1 have been formed into the bundle 2. This is done in a special way. The collection trough 9 is arranged below the reversing roller ruff of the alignment conveyor 6 which is arranged at the discharge end. The packaging means 10 is arranged next. To this end, a moving trough 11 and associated marking means 12 are arranged. This is followed by a discharge or transfer trough 13, which is arranged above a container 14 for a plurality of wrapped bundles 2. Collection trough 9
The bottom of the contact plate 15 is vertically reciprocatable on the end surface.
It is arranged in an inclined plane that descends toward , and the gradient of this plane is shown in FIG.

The packaging means 10 is arranged in the space between the collecting trough 9 and the moving trough 11 and acts as a bridge between these troughs 9 and 11 during operation. Marking means 12
is in the form of a push-button inkjet device and acts on the packages of the bundle 2 via a window 16 in the moving trough 11. A linear conveyor 17 is arranged above the unit formed by the collection trough 9, the transfer trough 11 and the transfer trough 13. When the contact plate 15 is lowered,
The conveyor 17 is adapted to insert a pivoted conveying arm 18 into the collecting trough 9 and another conveying arm 19 into the moving trough 11 to convey the wrapped bundles 2 from the wrapping means 10 to the moving trough 11. do. When the plate 15 is lowered, the conveyor 17 moves from the pivoted arm 18
The opened bundle 2 is fed into a packaging means 10 and the wrapped bundle 2 is fed through an inkjet device 12 to a discharge or transfer trough 13. As before, the discharge trough 13
extends above the container 14. This container is transferred to a trough 13 for delivering the wrapped bundle 2, as shown by the double-headed arrow in FIG.
The container 14 can be arranged such that it can be transferred from the container 14 to different locations. The wrapping means 10 may be in the form of a strapping device and may be capable of tying the bundle. The transport arm 19 has a transport head with vertically reciprocatable suction means 21 . These suction means receive the packaged bundles 2 near the packaging means 100 and move them, possibly lifting them slightly as mentioned above, in such a way that the inkjet dirt marks are not contaminated by rubbing against the bottom of the moving trough 11. The marking means 12 is
It is also possible to control the lowering of the suction means 21.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of the device according to the invention; FIG.
FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view corresponding to FIG. 1;

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) The finished slide fastener consisting of a continuous strip and having a starting end, an ending end and a runner is cut at a separation position, and the separated slide fastener is endlessly rotated by an accelerating belt via a reversing roller. conveyed to an alignment conveyor having a conveyor belt, the separated slide fasteners being aligned on such belt transversely to the conveying direction and parallel to each other from a motion and geometric point of view; In an apparatus for forming a predetermined number of slide fasteners into an open bundle, packaging this bundle, and making a package, the alignment conveyor having a counter for counting the number of slide fasteners to be formed into the bundle, the discharge end a collecting trough below the reversing roller of the alignment conveyor located in the section, a packaging means, a moving trough with marking means, a delivery or discharge trough, and a container for a plurality of wrapped slide fastener bundles; the bottom of the collection trough is arranged in an inclined plane descending towards the vertically reciprocatable contact plate at the end face, the packaging means is arranged in the space between the collection trough and the moving trough, and Acting as a bridge between these two troughs in operation, the marking means is in the form of a push-button inkjet device and acts on the package of the bundle via a window in the moving trough. , a linear conveyor is arranged above the unit formed by the collecting trough, the transfer trough and the transfer trough, and a pivot-coupled conveying arm is inserted into the collecting trough when the contact plate is raised. and another carrying arm inserted into the moving trough;
Transport of the wrapped bundles from the packaging means to the transfer trough is carried out, characterized in that a linear conveyor supplies the opened bundles to the packaging means and the wrapped bundles through an inkjet device to the discharge trough. A device for forming a predetermined number of slide fasteners into a bundle. (2) a delivery trough extending above the container, the container being arranged such that the wrapped bundle can be transferred from the delivery trough to different locations within the container by means of a coordinate table on which the container is placed; 2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device is capable of: (3) the packaging means is in the form of a strapping device;
The apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. (4) The conveying arm insertable into the moving trough near the wrapping means has a vertically reciprocatable conveying head having suction means that engages the wrapped bundles.
The device described in.